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The Kansas City Police Departments initiative to fight fentanyl "the right way" launched in January 2022 and since then, violent crime has significantly dropped, with some rates...

Police on Wednesday continued to search for a stolen car used to break down the gun store’s security gate.

The U.S. Marshals Service tracked the person suspected of firing shots that disrupted a Wyandotte High School football game last month to Manhattan, Kansas. He was arrested and charged Thursday afternoon.

Every unsolved killing in Kansas City, Kansas — more than 280 — received an initial review by police’s newly formed cold case unit. Here’s how it works.

Taking 20 years to charge someone whose DNA you’ve had in a drawer all this time is a disgrace rather than a reason to hold a victory parade. From Melinda Henneberger:

Long before the formation of the Kansas City, Kansas, Department’s cold case unit, detectives knew in 2003 that DNA tied a former truck driver to the 1998 murder of Christina King.

The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s recently formed cold case unit has identified suspects in 11 homicides dating back to 1979, Chief Karl Oakman said.

Kansas City, Kansas, police’s cold case unit has sent three cases to Wyandotte County prosecutors for consideration of charges.

Police identified the victim as Walter Sawyer, III, 52, of Kansas City, Kansas.

The 34-year-old gunshot victim was critically wounded June 5 in the 500 block of Elizabeth Avenue, according to police. He died in the hospital the next day.